Monday, December 31, 2012

VIDEO : December 31, 2012 : President Obama is relaxed and funny ! : Obama Makes a Statement on the Fiscal Cliff --- discusses ongoing fiscal cliff negotiations. --- says that his main objective is to protect the Poor and Middle Class

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And to put the Economy in Prosperity. - He talks about the spending cuts that will go automatically into effect on January 1 - Spending cuts should not be performed with an ax instead of a delicate surgical instrument. He will try to protect seniors.

The interest of Billionaires and Lobbyists should be balanced against the interests of Seniors, Children, Students, Middle Class and the Poor.


Published on Dec 31, 2012

President Obama Makes a Statement on the Fiscal Cliff



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Sunday, December 30, 2012

The USA needs a strong, firm and decisive President. - Not a fool kicked constantly by Republicans, that are puppets of the Super Rich and Wealthy and that constantly cuts the scarce benefits to the Poor and Middle Class in order to give great gifts in tax cuts to Plutocrats

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I do not see a better way to cause harm to the American Empire than establishing a Plutocracy, where the President is a stooge, clown, shill or plant, always conceding and giving in to the Super Wealthy.

Sooner or later the Economy will stagnate and stall because the Poor and Middle Class will suffer. Of course this has to do with the idea of Race, Racial Politics and Ethnicity, because the poorer Americans are in good part Minorities.

American Politics is in great part Racial Politics and that is not going to disappear soon. Racism is not going to end in a few decades.

If you examine the last Presidential Election, then you see the Amazing Racial Polarization. There are no other countries in the World with such characteristics. You can say that Slavery and Immigration have also existed in almost all Latin American Nations and the Caribbean. But they are not so polarized.

This discussion carries me to predict that the Democratic Party will continue winning Presidential Elections at least for two or three more cycles. And that caving to Republicans in December 2012 or January 2013 is useless, absurd and unwise.

Vicente Duque

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Saturday, December 29, 2012

"Fiscal Cliff" that doesn't kill Obama, makes him stronger. - If the American Nation goes over the Fiscal Cliff and the economic consequences are not very grave ( as I expect ), then Obama will emerge stronger and more powerful as President, Politician and Leader

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There is a very good possibility that there is no deal on the "Fiscal Cliff", a Republican hoax and scam. And that taxes will go up for everybody on January 1, 2013. It is likely that the Stock Market would suffer a decline for a few days or weeks and then picks up again as shrewd investors take advantage to buy good stocks at bargain prices.

Only thing that President Obama has to do is NOTHING in year 2012 and propose some legislation in January 2013 to give relief to the 98% of taxpayers that earn less than $250,000 a year, by extending the Bush Tax Cuts, only for that 98% of less rich Americans. But that decision will also favor lightly the Richest 2%.

The Fiscal Cliff does not mean a recession, perhaps a tiny slope of a few days or weeks. The American Economy is very strong now and posed for a Big Prosperity of several years under President Obama.

Ignorance of that Economic Fact is what scares people. You don't die because a mosquito bites you ( generally ! ). But the Richest people and their puppet Congress Republicans take advantage of ignorance and are constantly fearmongering and creating big scares to manipulate ignorants and fools.

At the end of all these economic adventures Republicans are going to be left with noses longer than Pinocchio's.


Vicente Duque

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HuffPost : Krauthammer told Hannity that Obama had been able to create a "civil war" over taxes within the GOP. --- "He's been using this -- and I must say with great skill, and ruthless skill, and success -- to fracture and basically shatter the Republican opposition," he said

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Charles Krauthammer said to Sean Hannity of Fox News :

"He's been using this -- and I must say with great skill, and ruthless skill, and success -- to fracture and basically shatter the Republican opposition," he said. "The only redoubt of the opposition is the House. And his objective from the very beginning was to break the will of the Republicans in the House, and to create an internal civil war, and he's done that. How did he do it? By always insisting from day one after the election that Republicans had to raise rates ... he did that because he knew it would create a crisis among Republicans, and it did."


My Comment :

If what Krauthammer says is true, then Obama is a Political Genius and Congress Republicans are idiots

Charles Krauthammer is being Krauthammer always throwing Conservative Bombs ......  How stupid can be a party in Civil War ??? ..... because of the intelligence, shrewdness and skill of a President of the other Party ??

If a Democrat or Liberal says something negative about the GOP then that is prejudice, bigotry, fanaticism and hatred. But Krauthammer is one of the most respected "pundits", sages and wise men that the Republican Party has now.

Can you understand the gravity of what Krauthammer says ?? ..... It means that the GOP is led by idiots and that they are constantly deceived by a master of politics !!

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Huffington Post
Charles Krauthammer: Obama Showing 'Great Skill, Ruthless Skill' In Fiscal Cliff Talks (VIDEO)
December 28, 2012


Charles Krauthammer: Obama Showing 'Great Skill, Ruthless Skill' In Fiscal Cliff Talks (VIDEO)


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Thursday, December 27, 2012

How can the "Obama Coalition" continue giving Democrat Presidents to the USA ?? - Reading Ruy Teixeira and John Halpin we unravel the secret for future triumphs of the Democratic Party and Obama's progressive successors

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These two authors say :

"White working-class support for Democrats has been higher in key battleground states such as Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin than in other states, while white college-educated support for Democrats has been strong in emerging battlegrounds such as Colorado and Virginia."

My Comment :

Then Democrats should work to preserve these White Demographies in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin ( and other Midwest States where they triumphed in 2012 ) and they should strive to conserve the White College-Educated Youngsters and their good showing in year 2012 among White Single Women.

I see absolutely no reason why Minorities would desert the Democratic Party and flock to the Republican Party ..... The Racism, Hatred and Bigotry in the GOP is so intense that it can not be cured in a few presidential election cycles.

Racism is a powerful drug, when you abandon it you are left with a great emptiness and nothingness. And there are no rehab clinics for Racism. And as you see now in the discussions of the "Fiscal Cliff" the Republican party will continue being the party of Plutocracy and the Puppets of the Richest and Wealthiest Americans, let's say the Party that only works for the economic interests of the top 2% in income and fortune.


Center For American Progress
The Obama Coalition in the 2012 Election and Beyond
By Ruy Teixeira and John Halpin
December 4, 2012


The Obama Coalition in the 2012 Election and Beyond


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Wait !,-- if Obama is Kenyan born in the sixties, then he may be a British Colonial, so America has erased the year 1776 and returns to British Colony. - VIDEO David Pakman : "Conservatives are furious that Obama, like Bush, issued a Kwanzaa message."

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"I wish Obama would Make a Presidential Proclamation that AIR is GOOD to Breathe.. ..... this way - Republicans would all Hold thier Breath!."


David Pakman Show : "Republicans FLIP OUT Over Obama's Kwanzaa Greeting...Not Bush's" - Republican Talibans say : "Don't Celebrate Kwanzaa's New Year because it is pagan, anti-Christian, and is a celebration of the Anti-Christian Anti-American un-American Beast 666 : AntiChrist Barack Obama"

The Muslim, Islamic, Racist, anti-White Gay Nazi Communist Kenyan that happens to be President of the USA or POTUS for short.

Republicans FLIP OUT Over Obama's Kwanzaa Greeting...Not Bush's



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Wednesday, December 26, 2012

Mitt Romney’s religion, dependent on a despicable con man and thief Joseph Smith is less than two hundred years old. -- Why we would ever think that reports two millennia old are any more reliable ?? - Atheistic AutoBiography of "Virgin" Mary

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From "The New Republic" : Virgin Mary despises all those crazies that want to make her son a God.

Excerpts :

And she does not hide her disdain for his followers: “He gathered around him, I said, a group of misfits, who were only children like himself, or men without fathers, or men who could not look a woman in the eye.” Her boy Jesus “could have done anything … he was grateful, good-mannered, intelligent.” But he chose to shine his light on a ragtag bunch of losers, and they pushed him toward a glory he did not want, until at last, consumed by their admiration, he did.

And so, Mary recalls, her son becomes so arrogant that he disrespects his mother. She cannot get close to him, always has to deal with his followers instead. Even his diction began to separate him from her: “he had begun to talk to others, high-flown talk and riddles, using strange proud terms to describe himself and his task in the world.” Mary does not buy the story of her son’s turning water into wine. As she remembers it, there was wine in some of the containers, water in others, and “in all the shouting and confusion no one knew what happened.” Mary is just as skeptical that her son raised Lazarus from the dead.

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As the testament leaves off, the disciples have just tried to persuade Mary that she held her son’s crucified body. But the shameful truth is that she fled his crucifixion to escape the Romans. She tells them as much, but she knows that her truth is useless to them, and so they will proceed with their lies. Her son is dead, and in a sense dead to her before he died. She has little use for the religion they will make of his memory. And she has little use for her religion, either. “I do not go to the Synagogue now,” Mary writes.

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The New Republic
Gospel Truth - Colm Tóibín Reinvents Mary
By Mark Oppenheimer   
December 26, 2012


Gospel Truth - Colm Tóibín Reinvents Mary


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Tuesday, December 25, 2012

TNR : "Republicans’ vote against Plan B pretty much guaranteed they’d be cast as the bad guys, and may even have rescued Obama from his own premature concession. I know that sounds simplistic. But honest to God, sometimes life really can be this simple."

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Timothy Noah in "The New Republic" explains why President Obama has all the winning cards against Republicans and he should not make concessions. The GOP is a victim of its own zealotry, fanaticism, intransigence, stubbornness, bigotry, dogmatism, rigidity, doctrinariasm, lack of flexibility and compromise, and even lack of intelligence !.

Republicans are for very unpleasant surprises as the American Nation goes over the Fiscal Cliff .... In my opinion without grave consequences, because the "Fiscal Cliff" is a Big Republican Hoax and Scam, invented by the Super Rich that are benefited by paying extremely low taxes and these same very wealthy people manage the Congress Republicans as puppets.

This time the Puppeteers are not going to win !


The New Republic
Republicans are Scorpions, Democrats are Frogs (and What this Means for the Fiscal Talks)
By Timothy Noah
December 23, 2012

Republicans are Scorpions, Democrats are Frogs (and What this Means for the Fiscal Talks)


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Sunday, December 23, 2012

VIDEO "Jennifer Granholm's progressive wish list for 2013" -- I take off my hat before her Intelligence and Wisdom - Good political decisions for America. - Excellent and even "common sense", but Republicans will fight against them

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 Published on Dec 21, 2012

In this web exclusive, Jennifer Granholm shares her legislative and progressive wish list ideas that she wants to see happen in the new year.


Extra: Jennifer Granholm's progressive wish list for 2013





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Morgan Housel ( The Motley Fool ) tells us that America is in the threshold of a Big Prosperity... Many Economic indicators point to the start of a Long Beautiful Bull Market, with American Productivity and Competitiveness shining again

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I have been a follower and fan of Morgan Housel for years, and I give him more credit than to the usual Casandras ( Prophets of Doom ) that we see everyday. His projections and opinions have not failed.

Republicans have done a big unsuccessful attempt to persuade us of impending economic doom for America, nothing farther from the Truth.



Fool.com
Turning the Corner: Why 2012 Wasn't as Bad as You Think
By Morgan Housel
December 20, 2012

Turning the Corner: Why 2012 Wasn't as Bad as You Think


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Friday, December 21, 2012

Jonathan Chait : Boehner's Plan B was rejected in the U. S. House of Representatives - "Without Boehner’s fallback strategy, the bulk of his membership if left totally exposed to Obama’s withering January attack. "If they were hoping to fight it out with the president after the New Year, their hopes of victory look even fainter now."

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Excerpt from New York Magazine :


The Plan B meltdown exposes Boehner’s weakness among the craziest of his crazies, and may leave him less willing to incur their wrath. But incur it he will, either by making a last-minute deal with Obama, or next year, when a huge tax hike (and defense cuts) spring into effect. The existence of a blowback on the right has always been a given. The practical effect of the failure of Plan B is to make it harder for Boehner to execute the strategy the crazies want him to follow. (That is how crazy they are -- so crazy they can't even rationally connect their power to their own desired ends.)

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New York Magazine
Plan B Fails, Boehner Marches Toward Cliff
By Jonathan Chait
Friday, December 21, 2012


Plan B Fails, Boehner Marches Toward Cliff


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VIDEO, Rachel Maddow : "Dysfunctional GOP Congress Does It Again - Nothing" - House Republicans are lazy moochers and parasites, they reject the bills of the Republican House Speaker John Boehner - It seems that he has no authority

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They earn a lot of money but do no work. Zero Legislation and Zero Achievements.  They are the topmost in "Welfare Queens" and "entitlements".

The thing that the U. S. House of Representatives does best : Nothing ! - These Republican bums have being there for two years doing nothing and approving zero important legislation.

The bills that the House Speaker, Republican John Boehner try to pass are sunk by his own party. There is a mood of stubbornness, intransigence, and no compromise on anything, among Republicans.

They are blind to the fact that they were defeated in the November Elections.


Dysfunctional GOP Congress Does It Again - Nothing





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Thursday, December 20, 2012

Calvinists in America and Predestination - Many denominations have their roots in Calvin, like those guys that say that the Connecticut Children were predestined by God's Will - John Piper, foremost specialist in John Calvin defends his Brutal Bastard Guy

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Since Europe was so poor, brutal, barbaric, filthy, dirty, unhealthy, everybody had mistresses, there were orphans and abandoned children everywhere then John Calvin ( Jean Cauvin ) deserves pardon for killing renaissance man Michael Servetus and for being such a Despot and Tyrant in Geneva, Switzerland.

I find it very weird that such a prominent theologian among important American pastors defends Calvin.

Great Austrian writer Stefan Zweig was not so forgiving, he wrote "The Right to Heresy: Castellio against Calvin" to show the scoundrel and bastard in the Reformer who wrote the "Institutes"...

Read here the defense of John Calvin by John Piper, there is no sympathy on my part for Calvinism, predestination that favors the Rich and Powerful, Puritanism and tyrants like Oliver Cromwell, etc ....

If you think that this is not political then read the exit polls of November 2012 and see how people voted against Obama according to what they pastors told them.

And see how Mitt Romney tried to present Obama as a Godless guy that wanted to lead America along the path of Atheism.


Plutocrats find that Calvinism is very useful for them !




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Desiring God Organization

The Divine Majesty of the Word
John Calvin: The Man and His Preaching
1997 Bethlehem Conference for Pastors
By John Piper
February 4, 1997


John Calvin: The Man and His Preaching


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Wednesday, December 19, 2012

Many of the Religious Idiots that Hate President Obama are followers of Despot John Calvin that burned at the stake Protestant Theologian Michael Servetus - Spanish Physician, Discover of Pulmonary circulation - Cartographer, Translator of Biblical Languages, Renaissance Humanist

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Have you heard of those scoundrels that disrupt Funerals of Victims like the 20 Children of Connecticut with their Theological Imbecility and Hatred ?? - And others that burn thr Quran, sacred book of Muslims ??

Have your heard of those idiots that say that America is going to be punished because of voting for Godless Obama ??

Many of them are followers of Brutal Monster John Calvin ( 1509 – 1564)

Did you see Mitt Romney trying to use Religious Bigotry against Obama, enemy of God ?? - He himself being a Freak of a Weird anti-Christian Historically Brutal Racist Anti-Women Religion ??

Brutal Religious Scoundrels and Bastards try to present themselves as Christians ( False ! ) and preach that President Obama is the Enemy of God and wants to impose an atheist America by Brutal Force !!

And now they are disrupting the Funerals of Innocent Victims with their strong stupidity and imbecility !!


Michael Servetus, Born in 1509 or 1511, Villanueva de Sijena, Kingdom of Aragon in Spain
Died burned on October 27, 1553, Geneva, Swiss Confederacy
Occupation     Theologian, Physician, Cartographer, Translator
Era     Renaissance
Main interests     Theology, Medicine
Notable ideas 


   
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia :


Michael Servetus (Spanish: Miguel Serveto Conesa), also known as Miguel Servet, Miguel Serveto alias Revés, or Michel de Villeneuve; (29 September? 1509 or 1511 – 27 October 1553) was a Spanish theologian, physician, cartographer, and Renaissance humanist. He was the first European to correctly describe the function of pulmonary circulation. He was a polymath versed in many sciences: mathematics, astronomy and meteorology, geography, human anatomy, medicine and pharmacology, as well as jurisprudence, translation, poetry and the scholarly study of the Bible in its original languages. 

He is renowned in the history of several of these fields, particularly medicine and theology. He participated in the Protestant Reformation, and later developed a nontrinitarian Christology. Condemned by Catholics and Protestants alike, he was arrested in Geneva and burnt at the stake as a heretic by order of the Protestant Geneva governing council.


This Protestant Geneva governing council was manipulated by Dictator Despot and Religious Bigot John Calvin ( Jean Cauvin in his native French Language )


Source :



Michael Servetus in Wikipedia

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Tuesday, December 18, 2012

Very Famous Professor of Finance and Investment at prestigious school, author of best seller books tells us that he is very optimistic about the Economy and Stocks during Obama's Second Term - The start of a Big Bull Market of Several Years

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According to the Professor the Dow Jones may have an increase of 15% during year 2013 and he would not be surprised to see a 25% gain. The market has already priced and discounted the "Fiscal Cliff" and the experts are not scared !!

After all that hate against Obama it is sane and healthy to listen to the true experts in Finance, Economy and Investment.


Advisor Perspectives Dot Com
Jeremy Siegel on ‘Dow 15,000’
By Robert Huebscher
December 18, 2012


Jeremy Siegel is the Russell E. Palmer Professor of Finance at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and a Senior Investment Strategy Advisor to Wisdom Tree Funds.  His book, Stocks for the Long Run, now in its fourth edition, is widely recognized as one of the best books on investing.  It is available via the link below.  He is a regular columnist for Yahoo Finance and is frequently quoted in the financial press.

I spoke with Siegel on Monday, December 10.


Jeremy Siegel on ‘Dow 15,00


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Monday, December 17, 2012

"Doomsday Preppers" : Do they live in fear of Life and the World ?? -- Are they afraid of the "Other" and the "Otherness" - Who created this fear ?? - The mother of kindergarden murderer Adam Lanza was hoarding weapons and food

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And she was educating this sick adolescent in fear and distrust !

Do some of these "Preppers" listen with attention to Glenn Beck and all the Political Bombardment of Fox News ?? - Are they are basically Right Wing People that enjoy tuning their radios to Rush Limbaugh ??

Mass shootings and murderers of many innocent people - Are some of they inspired by Television "pundits" and Radio Shock Jock Celebrities ??.

Even the guy that killed 100 people in Norway may have taken inspiration of these American sources of "Inspiration for Action" ....

That is only a guess !

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Sunday, December 16, 2012

Pew Research Center: Hispanics will account for 40% of the growth in the eligible electorate in the U.S. between now and 2030, at which time 40 million Hispanics will be eligible to vote, up from 23.7 million now

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This ethnic voting bloc is likely to double in size within a generation. - The nation’s 53 million Hispanics comprise 17% of the total U.S. population but just 10% of all voters this year, according to the national exit poll.



Pew Hispanic Center

An Awakened Giant: The Hispanic Electorate is Likely to Double by 2030
Aging, Naturalization and Immigration Will Drive Growth
by Paul Taylor, Ana Gonzalez-Barrera, Jeffrey Passel and Mark Hugo Lopez
November 14, 2012


An Awakened Giant: The Hispanic Electorate is Likely to Double by 2030

Some Excerpts :

Their share of the electorate will rise quickly for several reasons. The most important is that Hispanics are by far the nation’s youngest ethnic group. Their median age is 27 years—and just 18 years among native-born Hispanics—compared with 42 years for that of white non-Hispanics. In the coming decades, their share of the age-eligible electorate will rise markedly through generational replacement alone.

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If Hispanics’ relatively low voter participation rates and naturalization rates were to increase to the levels of other groups, the number of votes that Hispanics actually cast in future elections could double within two decades.

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17.6 million U. S. Latinos are under the age of 18 and thus too young to vote—for now. That vast majority (93%) of Latino youths are U.S-born citizens and thus will automatically become eligible to vote once they turn 18. Today, some 800,000 Latinos turn 18 each year; by 2030, this number could grow to 1 million per year, adding a potential electorate of more than 16 million new Latino voters to the rolls by 2030.

Thus, generational replacement alone will push the age- and citizen-eligible Latino electorate to about 40 million within two decades. If the turnout rate of this electorate over time converges with that of whites and blacks in recent elections (66% and 65%, respectively, in 2008), that would mean twice as many Latino voters could be casting ballots in 2032 as did in 2012.

This turnout could rise even more if naturalization rates among the 5.4 million adult Hispanic legal permanent residents were to increase over time—and/or if Congress were to pass a comprehensive immigration reform bill that creates a pathway to citizenship for the more than 7 million unauthorized Hispanic immigrants already living in the U.S.

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Thursday, December 13, 2012

Andy Borowitz : Next Presidents : "Eight years of Hillary, followed by eight years of Michelle, then eight years each for Chelsea, Sasha, and Malia. --- Caveat : The Twenty-second Amendment, which limits the President to two terms, will be repealed and Hillary will run again."

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"Another Warning : : If the Twenty-second Amendment is repealed, Bill will run again."


The New Yorker
Race for White House Wide Open After Hillary Leaves Office in 2024
by Andy Borowitz
December 12, 2012


Race for White House Wide Open After Hillary Leaves Office in 2024


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Washington Post : Romney winning the Presidency : Romney needed 42% of Latinos to win Nevada, Colorado and Pennsylvania - He needed 43% to win New Mexico - But he only got these miserable numbers : 24%, 23%, 18% and 29% respectively

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Mitt's Bad Luck with Latinos :


It is astonishing that Mitt Romney only got 18% of Latinos in Pennsylvania. But George W. Bush only took just 32 percent of the Hispanic vote in Pennsylvania in 2004, despite taking 44 percent nationwide. So Romney needed to perform better than George W. Bush, at least in Pennsylvania.

Excerpt :


"Latinos did push President Obama over the top in several key states — including Colorado, Florida, Nevada, New Mexico and Pennsylvania — that he would have lost without them. (Obama also would have lost the popular vote without Latinos.)"




Washington Post
Latinos didn’t cost Mitt Romney the election
by Aaron Blake
December 13, 2012 at 1:33 pm



Latinos didn’t cost Mitt Romney the election


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Wednesday, December 12, 2012

The New Republic : John B. Judis : It is necessary to end the Bush Tax Cuts for the Rich on January First, or else the American Economy would suffer - The Bush Tax Cuts turned the financial sector into a casino for the Rich :

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The wealthy, joined by corporate treasurers and bankers, have tended to pour their money into speculation rather than productive investment. Wall Street has lived in a World of Financial Irresponsibility that created the crisis of 2008 and the big recession than ensued.


Excerpts :

"Republican pleas to retain tax breaks for the wealthy and corporations and to eviscerate social programs do suggest a Romneyesque indifference to the 99 percent; they also presume an economy that no longer exists."

“These incentives,” Livingston writes, “are merely invitations to inflate speculative bubbles.” Obama’s concession to arguments about the deficit, which come from Tea Party Republicans and business groups like Fix the Debt,  is understandable, but unfortunate. There will come a time -- when unemployment dips, say, below six percent, and the countries’ businesses are at full capacity – when it will be important to reduce government deficits. And raising marginal taxes on the wealthy will be one way – along with other measures – to bring the deficit down.  

But bringing down the deficit should not be the principal objective right now. What’s important is to continue the recovery from the Great Recession and to take measures to prevent future crises. Supply-siders were right about one thing: the best way to reduce the government deficit is to create economic growth. Obama’s proposal to raise taxes on the wealthy and to transfer those revenues to workers and the unemployed isn’t just the fair thing to do; it is exactly what’s right for the economy.

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The New Republic
Rein in the Rich: How Higher Taxes Could Lift the Economy
By John B. Judis
December 12, 2012


Rein in the Rich: How Higher Taxes Could Lift the Economy


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Sunday, December 9, 2012

Fiscal Cliff Hoax and Scam : 80 percent of House Republicans are worried about being primaried if they cave too soon. And very few of them are worried about winning their general elections, so the incentive is to resist to the President. --- Some interesting thoughts that I found in POLITICO.COM

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Republicans can’t look like caving preemptively or precipitously, because that would infuriate their base, which is very bigoted, intransigent and fanatic.

House Speaker John Boehner does not seem like the guy that enjoys cracking the whip on his House Republicans. He seems unable to man up and be the boss - the way Pelosi 'manned up' when she ran the place."

Obama is correcting his negotiation mistakes. Boehner should be able to recognize what Obama's learned from him.

Boehner has to get over it. Obama learned from him in year 2011 ....

Republican members are exposed to vicious primary challenges from the Tea Party. But driving the Republicans farther right drives them away from the political center and strengthens the popularity of the Democrats and likelihood that they will score more victories in 2014.

The alternative scenario is to rouse the Tea Party to mount a campaign to preserve the privilege of the 2%. And Democrats would enjoy that. The House Republicans intransigence is the Democratic Party's strength.

Republicans need something to move on rates for the Richest 2%, so they have to say what it is. Obama won’t and shouldn't negotiate with himself like a fool. Rates are going up one way or the other, so Republicans should do this the easy way and get some deal for them even if it is not why they want, and is very far from their impossible and frustrated dreams that they had before the presidential election, dreams that were shattered and destroyed in November 6.

Republicans should not forget that they are the losers of the 2012 democratic electoral contest and that the American People did NOT like or approve their mad economic proposals of Social Darwinism and Plutocracy.

POLITICO.COM

Fiscal cliff: What Boehner, Obama are thinking
By MIKE ALLEN and JIM VANDEHEI
December 7, 2012


Fiscal cliff: What Boehner, Obama are thinking

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Friday, December 7, 2012

AP/HuffPost : The unemployment rate fell to 7.7 percent, the lowest since December 2008. Hiring remained steady during the storm and in the face of looming tax increases - Labor Department's report on Friday - Stocks jumped after announcement !

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Excerpts :


"The increase suggests employers are not yet delaying hiring decisions because of the "fiscal cliff." That's the combination of sharp tax increases and spending cuts that are set to take effect next year without a budget deal."

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"Stock futures jumped after the report. Dow Jones industrial average futures were down 20 points in the minutes before the report came out at 8:30 a.m., and just after were up 70 points."

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"The U.S. grew at a solid 2.7 percent annual rate in the July-September quarter."


Huffington Post
Associated Press
November Jobs Report: U.S. Economy Adds 146,000 Jobs As Unemployment Rate Drops
December 7, 2012





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Thursday, December 6, 2012

VIDEO : Chris Matthews, Jonathan Chait ( New York Magazine ), Bob Shrum - The Democratic Party is a Diverse Coalition of many skin colors - The GOP is homogeneous White, Conventions 2012 : you could see Minorities only in the Podium where they were moved to show "colors"

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The Democratic Party is diverse as America - The Few Minorities in the Republican Party act as stooges of a farce, and they are very hard to find except in the podium or located for Television Purposes. Minorities in the Republican Convention were there for TV Deception !


Published on Dec 5, 2012 by SimplyBestNews2013



Matthews Jokes Minorities Gathering In Large Groups 'Concerns' Republicans




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Jonathan Chait : "By ignoring the fiscal cliff doomsayers and Grand Bargaineers demanding that he compromise, Obama is doing the one thing that can result in an agreement." - "The key is the expiration of the Bush tax cuts for the rich."

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"As long as Obama is negotiating for that revenue, a deal is impossible. If he has that revenue in his pocket, a deal becomes very easy."

According to Jonathan Chait in "New York Magazine", the best thing that can happen to America is the expiration of the Bush Tax Cuts. A deal between Republicans and Democrats is only possible after the automatic return of the tax rates to the Clinton Years. And that will happen on January 1st of 2013 without doing anything.


My comment :

I think that Jonathan Chait is right. It is useless to negotiate with such stubborn people that sign pledges to Lobbyists like Norbert Norquist instead of signing a pledge to the common good of America.


New York Magazine
Obama’s Refusal to Deal Paving Way for a Deal
By Jonathan Chait
December 5, 2012


Obama’s Refusal to Deal Paving Way for a Deal


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Wednesday, December 5, 2012

VIDEO : Rachel Maddow : "GOP Seems To Be 'Imploding Since The Election'." : Former House majority leader Dick Armey obtained 8 million dollars to leave the Tea Party group FreedomWorks in the middle of a Great Fight and Acrimony

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Being in the Tea Party to exploit fools ! - Getting rich by preaching hatred, bigotry, racism and nonsense blather against the President ! - The true face of the losers in the November Presidential Election.


Published on Dec 4, 2012 by Buzz sourse

On her show tonight, Rachel Maddow checked in on the surprising fallout between former House majority leader Dick Armey and Tea Party group FreedomWorks. Maddow used the friction between the two to highlight how the right appears to be slowly but surely "imploding" in the aftermath of last month's presidential election.

RELATED: Rachel Maddow Tears John McCain Apart Over His Calls For GOP To 'Leave The [Abortion] Issue Alone'

Maddow highlighted that Armey has asked his name and image be taken off any material connected to the organization, and that his agreement to step down from the group included an 8 million dollar severance. Publicly, Maddow pointed out, Armey has called his departure from the group "a matter of principle."

Maddow GOP Seems To Be 'Imploding Since The Election'


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VIDEO : "The Simpsons Cartoon" : Rich Wicked Man Montgomery Burns is very sad because Romney and Ryan lost - But he wants to scare the Hell out of America with the Fiscal Cliff - He is proposing using Marco Rubio to deceive Hispanics

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Soulless and Heartless Plutocrat Monty Burns and his sycophant Waylon Smithers, they are discovering the hard reality of a defeat for the Republicans. They are plotting to use the "Fiscal Cliff" Hoax and Scam and to deceive Latinos with Marco Rubio, so that these voters believe that Marco is one of them.


 Published on Dec 4, 2012 by ANIMATIONonFOX

Still reeling from the presidential election results, Mr. Burns takes a few minutes to explain the upcoming fiscal cliff.

Fiscal Cliff | The Simpsons | Animation on FOX


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Jonathan Chait on Fiscal Cliff Hoax : Republicans are hoping to use the debt ceiling as a hostage that will give them leverage over Obama in shaping the next deals. But there is a new Tougher Harsher Obama - It’s not 2011 anymore

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Republicans played dirty tricks on Obama during the "Debt Ceiling Crisis" of 2011. -- This time Republicans are for very painful surprises. Obama does not have reasons to fear the GOP and its arrogance. They were defeated in the November Elections and can not be treated as victors to get the spoils of the battle.


New York Magazine

Obama: No More Debt Ceiling Extortion
By Jonathan Chait

December 5, 2012


Obama: No More Debt Ceiling Extortion


Some excerpts :

Much as they had expected they could win the tax-cut fight by replaying their 2010 strategy of refusing to extend tax cuts for anybody unless the top rates were included, Republicans have been planning to replay their 2011 strategy of using the debt ceiling as a hostage to extract concessions. It worked in 2011 for various reasons that no longer hold true: Obama’s looming reelection made a threat to market stability especially potent, and Obama genuinely believed House Republicans would compromise with him out of a desire to reduce the long-term deficit.

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The unanswered question is how Obama plans to break that habit. One possibility would be to include a reform of the debt ceiling into whatever deal he strikes with Republicans. If no deal is in place by the time the debt ceiling has to rise, probably in February, then Obama will be faced with a choice of exercising a unilateral option to ignore the debt ceiling, either by citing the Fourteenth Amendment or by minting a platinum coin, two options that have relatively strong legal basis. In all likelihood, it won’t come to that, because once January hits, the main impediment to an agreement (the Bush tax cuts for the rich) will be gone, and a deal will be pretty simple to make.

But Republicans are hoping the debt ceiling will give them leverage over Obama in shaping that deal. Obama is suggesting he won’t allow it. I suspect he’s right about that. It’s not 2011 anymore.

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Tuesday, December 4, 2012

The Future of the Internet is the Present of PORN : the relationship between PORN and Politics, Floral Art, Gardening, High Cuisine and Haute Couture - If you want to see what is going to happen look at and watch PORN

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Several Years ago I read somewhere that PORN is the "advanced activity" in Internet and that many web businesses have to learn from PORN and follow the business models that PORN discovers.

I am surrounded by people that have a love and passion for Floral Art, Gardening, High Cuisine, Haute Couture, Gastronomy, Beauty ( make up, hairstyles ), music and Banquets. I am not talking of rich people, but simple and humble people that work in those fields or are just hobbyists and fans.

I observe how these people learn more and advance more in all those endeavors .... And I see how they look at hundreds of Videos in YouTube.com, and other sites on the web.

But the most amazing thing is what has happened to PORNOGRAPHY ( with capitals ! ) .... Hundreds of Videos can be gotten for free, kostenlos, gratis in the Internet.

There are PORN sites where you can watch VIDEOS of the most beautiful girls or ladies of all sizes, colors, styles and flavors for free, and one of those sites may have hundreds. And a single lady may offer 20 or 30 free videos of big nudity, and 300 like photos without any charge.

Of course, I am not in that business of PORN, and I am not going to give those URLS.

But I see that general newspapers and magazines are economically failing, and some try to charge the user. But the user can get similar information for free in other website or blog.

Some people can't see their favorite TV program or TV anchor at the scheduled time, but they look for the guy or lady for free and without too much ads or despicable commercial propaganda.

This is bad for PLUTOCRATS and Social Darwinists, because they are losing control of Big Channels of Information, as people flee from newspapers and television and become Internet Junkies, where they can choose among many options.

Vicente Duque

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Monday, December 3, 2012

VIDEO Charles Krauthammer : Obama is treating Republicans close to the "Fiscal Cliff" like they being General Robert E. Lee surrendering to General Ulysses S. Grant - Krauthammer always speaks with Great Solemnity and Pomposity and I always laugh at the comedy

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Appomattox - April 12, 1865 - End of Civil War :

Unfortunately for Republicans President Obama does not drink so much as General Ulysses S. Grant, so Republicans won't be given any "mules and horses" and no food rations like the men of General Robert E. Lee.

General Grant allowed the defeated men to take home their horses and mules to carry out the spring planting and provided Lee with a supply of food rations for his starving army; Lee said it would have a very happy effect among the men and do much toward reconciling the country.


My Comment :

This is very unfortunate because the American Civil War was about Slavery of Blacks and Freedom. And now America has a "Black" President and the Social Darwinism of the GOP is deeply racist and anti-Minorities with its"Romney Hood" ( The Rich stealing from the Poor and Minorities, including African Americans ).

I am amazed at how "pundit" Charles Krauthammer is disconnected from Blacks, Latinos, Asians, other Minorities and the Poor Americans. His Solemnity and Pomposity hides his lack of Empathy and Compassion for other human beings. He does not like "The Other" and "The Otherness". That is why he is given employment at Fox News.

Krauthammer is frustratred, his predictions always fail, he is angry, a sore loser !


Charles Krauthammer Fiscal Cliff Analogy: Obama Offer Worse Than Appomattox


 Published on Nov 30, 2012 by ThePrincessHira

Conservative columnist Charles Krauthammer drew a curious comparison on Fox News Thursday evening between Washington's fiscal cliff standoff and the Civil War.

During a panel appearance on "Special Report" with Bret Baier, Krauthammer compared the White House's opening proposal in the fiscal cliff negotiations to the surrender terms offered General Robert E. Lee at Appomattox Court House to conclude the Civil War.

Said Krauthammer: It's not just a bad deal, this is really an insulting deal... Robert E. Lee was offered easier terms at Appomattox and he lost the Civil War. The Democrats won by 3% of the vote and they did not hold the House. Republicans won the House. So this is not exactly unconditional surrender, but that's what the administration is asking of Republicans. There not only are no cuts in this, there's an increase in new spending with a stimulus - this is almost unheard of. I mean, what do they expect? They obviously expect the Republicans will cave on everything. I think Republican ought to simply walk away.


Charles Krauthammer Fiscal Cliff Analogy: Obama Offer Worse Than Appomattox


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Sunday, December 2, 2012

Next Presidential Elections : Concepts of Mathematics, Probability, Physics and Game Theory in the Swing States and Electoral College, Physical Inertia, Geography of Minorities. Democrats greatly favored for Presidency but not for House or Senate

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This is Independent of Candidates, because conditions of Geography of Minorities and Swing States, Electoral College Math, and Demography may condemn the Republican Party in Presidentials. Democrats may enjoy a Big Advantage for decades.

Obama enjoyed Mathematical advantages for Electoral College superior to those Democrats that ran for the Presidency before him.

AlterNet.Org
Dominance: The New Democratic Voting Base Is an Electoral Steamroller

Nominate Jeb Bush or Bobby Jindal. It doesn't matter: The Electoral College now favors the Democrats. Have the Democrats opened up a real Electoral College advantage over the Republicans?

By Jonathan Bernstein
December 1, 2012


Dominance: The New Democratic Voting Base Is an Electoral Steamroller

Some excerpts :

I’m not talking about the illusion of an advantage that comes with winning consecutive elections. That might be the result of a streak in which the party is helped by favorable fundamentals, or it can be, as with Democratic majorities in the New Deal era, simply part of a national advantage. In either case, a party might win the same states every time, but — as Republicans discovered in 1992 — when those favorable conditions end, the apparent electoral “lock” disappears, too.

No, I’m talking about an Electoral College edge above and beyond the national vote. That’s not defined by which states went for which candidate; it’s found by looking at what would have happened in the Electoral College if an election had been tied in the national vote. To calculate it, assume uniform swing – that is, if swing state Ohio moves toward the Democrats, then liberal Vermont and conservative Utah will also move toward the Democrats by the same amount. In reality, the states don’t swing quite that equally, but they’re very close to it.

Usually, Electoral College advantages have been very small, and they flip back and forth between the parties – during the 2000 election, when George W. Bush wound up winning because of a very slim Electoral College advantage, polls throughout most of the contest actually showed a slight Electoral College edge for Al Gore. However, in the last two election cycles, Democrats have suddenly enjoyed a substantial bias in their favor.

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VIDEO : CNN Candy Crowley and Tim Geithner : "White House Willing To Go Over The Cliff If Republicans Don't Agree To Raise Tax Rates" - A tax deal is unlikely if tax rates are not increased on the top 2%

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Tim Geithner ( Treasury Secretary ) says that there won't be an agreement withour raising taxes for the top 2%

My comment : Congress Republicans are the puppets of the Super Rich - They want big gifts for the wealthy stealing money from the Poor and Middle Class - The GOP is "100% Romney Hood" : Steal from the Poor to give to the Rich !


 Published on Dec 2, 2012 by Buzz Sourse

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner appeared on CNN's State of the Union with Candy Crowley on Sunday morning where he explained some of the details of President Barack Obama's opening bid in the negotiations with Congressional Republicans to find a resolution to the upcoming fiscal cliff. Geithner said that the White House would not negotiate on their demand that tax rates on the wealthy go up. He said that, if Republicans refused to back off their insistence that tax rates not be increased, a deal was unlikely and the nation will go over the cliff and all Americans will see their taxes increase in 2013.


White House Willing To Go Over The Cliff If Republicans Don't Agree To Raise Tax Rates


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Saturday, December 1, 2012

HuffPost : Robert Borosage : "On the Fiscal Extortion; Just Say No" : "No deal is a far better alternative than a bad deal -- and the grand bargain now being discussed is a very bad deal." - The Fiscal Cliff is a Republican Hoax and Scam

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My Comment :

A Grand Bargain Insults Democracy, the People decided against Big Gifts to the Super Rich, given with the sacrifice of the Middle Class and the Poor. Now, the defeated but arrogant Republicans are acting like victors and claiming the spoils of the Electoral Battle to satisfy their brutal masters and puppeteers ( The Corporations that represent the Super Rich ).

Huffington Post

On the Fiscal Extortion; Just Say No

November 30, 2012

By Robert Borosage
President, Institute for America's Future


On the Fiscal Extortion; Just Say No
 
Some excerpts :

Easily lost in the tumult is simple common sense. No deal is a far better alternative than a bad deal -- and the grand bargain now being discussed is a very bad deal. Here are the reasons citizens should be skeptical about the rush to agree.

1. It's time to call the bluff of the economic extortionists

What we face isn't a fiscal cliff; it's economic extortion. The austerity bomb set to go off in January is simply another round of the economic extortion that Tea Party Republicans first used, with destructive effect, over the debt ceiling negotiations in 2011.


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4. A Grand Bargain Insults Our Democracy

We just had an election in which voters had a clear choice. Mitt Romney ran as the candidate by, for and of the 1 percent. He argued for lowering tax rates, closing loopholes, "reforming" entitlements and trickle down economics. Barack Obama ran against the odds of a lousy economy, calling for raising taxes on the rich to help invest in areas vital to our future.

Now the CEOs behind the "Fix the Debt" coalition are pushing a deal that tracks Romney's position -- including even the outrageous notion of using the fiscal showdown to sneak in a huge new tax loophole -- passing a territorial tax system that would exempt companies from paying U.S. taxes on profits reported abroad, essentially turning the entire world into a potential tax haven. Secure in their lavish pensions, the CEOs are ardently campaigning to curtail the retirement security vital to working Americans. This is, as Paul Krugman notes, simple class warfare from above.


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Just saying no has one other benefit. Instead of a big deal that is more likely to be harmful to the vulnerable than not, no deal opens the possibility of a new focus on what we need to do to get the this economy on the right track. The president could use his State of the Union to lay out a new foundation for growth that will also get our books in order. No deal might just clear the air for a new debate.

But that will open space for a serious argument about what we need to make this economy work once more. And it will do much less damage than a grand bargain that ignores the reforms we need, propagates the myths we can no longer afford, and adds burdens to the majority of Americans who are already struggling with declining wealth and increasing insecurity.

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